My list of favorite FREE tools / software. (add yours)
 

It's amazing how many of the tools and software I use every day are free. Figured I would share.

- Color Cop
URL: http://colorcop.net

- Asterisk Key
URL: http://www.LostPassword.com

- Filezilla
URL: http://filezilla-project.org

- Handbrake (encoding for mp4)
URL: http://handbrake.fr

- Media Coder (fast encoding for mp4 if you can use CUDA)
URL: http://mediacoderhq.com

- Open Office
URL: http://openoffice.org

- Tweet Deck
URL: http://tweetdeck.com

- Trillian
URL: http://trillian.im

- Notepad
URL: http://notepad-plus-plus.org

- CK Rename
URL: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,8108

Lemmings for DOS

Audacity - Sound editor

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Blender - 3D rendering

http://www.blender.org/

CutePDF - PDF maker

http://www.cutepdf.com

good stuff :thumbsup

Back Oriface, Win Nuke, Avalanche, ICQ IP Sniffer, and NetBus

The new Google translate app for iPhone is very cool (and free for now).

Perl.
EditPad.
Thunderbird 2.
wget.
curl.
miranda-im
virtualdub.
mediaplayer classic home cinema edition.
...

Thanks for the shares!

don't forget
dropbox and logmein

-Paint.net
URL: www[dot]getpaint[dot]net

Not as good as photoshop but its awesome for being free

I use lots already mentioned in this thread. The one I have to add that hasn't been listed is

MeGUI for encoding

http://www.virtualdub.org/
http://www.7-zip.org/
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
website:
videohelp.com

Notepad++

I could not live without eclipse...

Using ColorPic for this one (also free)
http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

Using Any Video Converter for video conversions (free)
http://www.any-video-converter.com/p...or_video_free/

Using QIP

Using Notepad++ also.. it rocks :)

my favorite free tool is all the free content i get from sites to put on my tube..... :thumbsup






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Putty
WinSCP
Cygwin
gVIM

phpBB :pimp

These are some excellent tools guys! Keep it coming.
What a great Business oriented thread.
Day-2-Day tools are critical to our business.

MINE:

Notepad ++ <------- A MUST
Filezilla
Teamviewer (basically remote desktop)
Firefox (and the ton of plugins I use daily)
Audacity
Handbrake
* Wordpress
** Wordpress
*** Wordpress



A good, day to day workflow is critical for you and your business.

Wordpress.org
Linkspun.com
:D

CKrename is indeed awesome.. another tool I use for bulk file editing is BK Replacem, www.orbit.org/replace

great stuff mentioned, a few more I use:
Virtual Box
Jruler
ccleaner
virtual clone drive
lastpass
spybot search & destroy
the KMPlayer

I use those as well.

For Remote Access on Win/mac machines there is also Teamviewer

http://www.teamviewer.com

For AntiVirus there is

AVG Free

http://free.grisoft.com

Avast

http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download (email registration required)

and Avira

http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

VLC Media Player comes in handy for machines without a DVD decoder:

http://www.videolan.org/

But nowadays you can download the Windows media DVD Decoder for free

http://www.mediacodec.org/

notepad++
dropbox
tweetdeck
bookmark navigator
jing pro
photoshop
video thumbnails maker
frame shots
feed demon
web snapshot
bulkr

Consider this thread bookmarked.

some interesting software to find here

please continue to share so I bump

He was talking mostly about Free tools.. But team viewer only has a free triall.. To bad. Nice tool

Google chrome + plugins - best browser
qip internet messager - aka icq
thunderbird - for mails
ietester - for test
putty - :)

FrameShots
VideoCharge Studio
Sorenson Squeeze Pro
CuteFTP Pro
Adobe Premiere
Adobe Photo Shop
Chameleon Submitter
Notepad
ICQ

FileZilla
Fast Stone Image Viewer
Notepad++

I love you Wordpress

MWSnap http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mwsnap.html
Textpad http://www.textpad.com/

visual pinball and pinmame haha

Who pays for software anymore? :)

no shit! lol thanks

A list of my favourite FREE software:

Unreal Commander instead of Total Commander
XnView instead of ACDSee
QIP instead of ICQ
Foxit Reader instead of Acrobat Reader (much faster)
WinSCP
Opera
Notepad++
Gyazo

interesting list...

First interesting thread for long time and so few posts...
I would add IrfanView.

Most of what I use has already been listed, but for a bump:

Measure it - add on for firefox I couldn't live wihout.

Fireshot - another firefox add on.

Itunes - I can't work without being able to rock out at the same time.

Unlocker - For when you can't eject drives.

bitvise Tunnelier

Notepad
ICQ
the rest I will check out, thread bookmarked

PSPad - more powerful than Notepad++ and completely free. I've been using it for years.

FileZilla
Cash-Stats
Miranda IM
CCleaner
DAEMON Tools Lite
FastStone Image Viewer
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Font Xplorer
Skype
MediaInfo
MediaCoder
Light Alloy
vlc player
QuickTime Player
CDBurnerXP

Oh sorry!
+ Adobe Studio CS5 :thumbsup

interesting list